The Yatesbury burial records show Robert CASSWELL to be buried in 1752.

In the name of God Amen I Robert Caswell of Yatesbury in the County of Wilts yeoman being weak in Body but of sound Mind Memory and Understanding
(thanks be unto God) Do make this my last will-and Testament in manner following That is to say First my Will is that my just debts and Funeral
Expenses shall be paid by my Executors in Trust heron
after named,

item 1 give unto my Brother in Law William Vivaish one Shilling, item unto my Sister Christian Pope One Shilling, item I give to my
Sister Mary Pottow One Shilling item I Give and bequeath
unto Elizabeth Spackman Spinster Daughter of William Spackman of
Cherhill in the said County One Hundred Pounds to be paid her in
one year after my Decease, also one Feather Bed with all the
Bedding whereunto belonging item I Give unto my Loving Wife
Judith Caswell one half part or Moiety of all my Household Goods
for and during her natural life. and after her decease I give the
said half part or Moiety of my Household Goods to William Spackman
Son of the Said Elizabeth Spackman above mentioned Also I Give
unto my said Wife Judith one annuity of Twenty Pounds a year to
be paid her Quarterly (to begin and commence immediately after
my Decease) by my Executors in Trust heron after named For the Term
of Four Years if She should so long happen to live and from and
after the term of the Said four years, my will is that in lieu
therof She shall have and accept of the one half part or Moiety
of the lnterest of my whole Estate being placed at interest after
the payment of my Debts Legacy's and Expenses that may accrue in
the execution of this my last will by Executors in Trust hereinafter
named
I give unto the said William Spackman son of the said Elizabeth Spackman one Annuity of Twenty pounds a year to be paid out Quarterly (to begin and Commence immediately after my decease) by my executors in Trust heron after named for the term of Four Years, For the maintenance and Education of the said William Spackman, and from and after the said Term of four years My Will is that in lieu thereof my Executors shall take the other half part or moiety of the interest of my whole Estate being placed out at interest as above said and apply the same for the use and Benefitt of the said William Spackman at their discretion, and my will and meaning further is that after my Wifes Decease the whole of my Estate both Real and personal shall be and remain in
the Hands of my said Executors in Trust or the Survivor or
Survivors of them until the said William Spackman shall arrive
to the age of one and twenty years And then my will is that my
said executors in trust shall Deliver up (after deducting their
necessary charges) all my Estate and Securities to the said
William Spackman for his own proper use.

item I Give unto my Loving Wife Judith Caswell one half part or Moiety of all my Household Goods for and during her natural life. and after her decease I give the said half part or Moiety of my Household Goods to William Spackman Son of the Said Elizabeth Spackman above mentioned Also I Give
unto my said Wife Judith one annuity of Twenty Pounds a year to
be paid her Quarterly (to begin and commence immediately after
my Decease) by my Executors in Trust heron after named For the Term of Four Years if She should so long happen to live and from and after the term of the Said four years, my will is that in lieu therof She shall have and accept of the one half part or Moiety
of the lnterest of my whole Estate being placed at interest after
the payment of my Debts Legacy's and Expenses that may accrue in
the execution of this my last will by Executors in Trust hereinafter
named

item I give unto the said William Spackman son of the said
Elizabeth Spackman one Annuity of Twenty pounds a year to be paid out Quarterly (to begin and Commence immediately after my decease) by my executors in Trust heron after named for the term of Four Years, For the maintenance and Education of the said William
Spackman, and from and after the said Term of four years My Will
is that in lieu thereof my Executors shall take the other half
part or moiety of the interest of my whole Estate being placed
out at interest as above said and apply the same for the use
and Benefitt of the said William Spackman at their discretion,
and my will and meaning further is that after my Wifes Decease the whole of my Estate both Real and personal shall be and remain in
the Hands of my said Executors in Trust or the Survivor or
Survivors of them until the said William Spackman shall arrive
to the age of one and twenty years And then my will is that my
said executors in trust shall Deliver up (after deducting their
necessary charges) all my Estate and Securities to the said
William Spackman for his own proper use But if the said William
Spackman should marry and Die & leave a child or Children
before he shall attain to the age of one and twenty years my
Will is that my Executors or the survivor of them shall equally
divide my said whole Estate amongst such Children and lastly I
do hereby nominate constitute and appoint my Friends Thomas
Neate of Calne, Thomas Naider of Monckton, Thomas Brown of
Nevertown and Stephen Neate of Upham all in the said County
of Wilts my whole and whole and sole Executors in trust of
this my last Will and Testament ( and further I give and
bequeath unto each of them my said Executors in Trust of the
sum of Five Pounds for Executing the Trust herein by me reposed
in them and further my Will is that neither of my executors shall
be answerable for each other nor accountable for any monies
that shall be lost by being placed out at interest)

And I do hereby revoke Disannul and make void all Former Wills and do declare this to be my last Will and Testament. in Witness whereof
I have herunto set my hand and Seal the Fifteenth Day of June
in the Year of our Lord One Thousand Seven Hundred and Fifty One

Signed Sealed published and
Declared by the said Robert Caswell
to be his last Will & Testament

signed Henry Palmer
Isaac Paradise

In a lease between a Robert Caswell & Elizabeth Hungerford (landlord ) 1802, for a farm in Yatesbury, Robert Caswell is mentioned, as deceased,
his son William also deceased, is also mentioned. This is the only connection we have for these three people, as it seems the Yatesbury records for the period are missing. The lease, in its entirity is logged into the 1st mentioned Robert's files.

Document # 2

The several answer of Andrew Cripps Clement Burchell and Anne
Burchell three of the defendants to the bill of Complaint of
Richard Pope and Christian his wife William Vivash and Susannah
his wife Robert Caswell and Mary Caswell an infant under the age
of one and twenty years by the said Robert her next friend
complainants

1) These defendants saving and reserving to themselves all
benefit and advantage of exception to the uncertainties and
insufficiencies in the complainants' said bill of complaint
contained for answer thereunto or to so much thereof as these
defendants are advised to be

2) material for them to make answer unto they do (each speaking
for him and her self) severally answer and say that they believe
it to be true that William Caswell deceased in the bill named
made his will bearing date on or about the second day of august
one thousand

3) seven hundred and six and that he thereby made such devises
and bequests or to such effect as in the complainants' said bill
for that purpose are set forth but for greater certainty these
defendants crave leave to refer to the said will and these
defendants severally believe

4) that the said William Caswell after the making of his will
intermarried with Priscilla Caswell in the bill named and that
upon and before such marriage some agreement was made by the
said William Caswell that some provision should be

5) made for the said Priscilla out of his copyhold estate in the
bill mentioned and for any thing these defendants respectively
know to the contrary such agreement might be to the effect in
the bill for that purpose set forth and that the said

6) Priscilla might before her said marriage enter into some bond
or obligation but what was the condition thereof or to whom the
same was given these defendants know not and all these
defendants severally deny (each speaking for

7) him and her self) that they or either of them to the
knowledge of each other have or hath the said bond in their
respective custody or power nor do they know what is become of
the same And these defendants severally say they respectively

8) believe that the said testator in some short time after his
marriage with the said Priscilla departed this life leaving the
said Priscilla his wife and five children by a former wife viz.
the said defendant William Caswell and the complainants

9) Robert Caswell Christian Pope Susanna Vivash and Mary Caswell
And this defendant Clement Burchell doth admit that he was named one of the said testators executors and that he did decline
acting in the said executorship and

10) believe that Peter Young Walter Foreman and Robert Burchell
were also named executors of the said will and that the said
Young and Foreman did also decline acting in the said
executorship but whether the said Robert Burchell did take

11) upon him the said executorship and prove the said will or
whether he or any other person did cause any inventory to be
made of the said testator's personal estate all these defendants
each speaking for him and her self severally say

12) they respectively know not And these defendants severally
say they believe that the said defendants William Caswell and
Priscilla Caswell were in the said testator's late dwelling
house when he died and what deeds writings bonds notes or

13) securities of or belonging to the said testator or his
estate (if any) were in his said dwelling house at the time of
his death these defendants believe the said Robert Burchell
sometime afterwards possessed himself of the same and this
defendant

14) Clement Burchell for himself doth deny that he was or ever
had to his knowledge or remembrance in his possession or power
any deeds writings bonds notes or securities which belonged to
the said testator or his estate at the time of his

15) death or that he this defendant has permitted any other
person to take into his possession any such deeds writings or
securities nor has this defendant possessed any bond entered
into by the said William Caswell the son for the payment of his

16) father's debts and legacies (if any such there was) and
these defendants severally say they respectively believe that
the said William Caswell the son might manage the said
testator's real and copyhold estate but what sums of money he

17) received or raised thereout these defendants severally say
they respectively know not nor do they respectively know that he
treated his brother and sisters in a rude and unkind manner or
forced them to go to service for their livelihood

18) and subsistence or that any debates or controversies arose
between him and the said Priscilla nor do these defendant know
anything of their own respectively knowledge of any award made
touching any such

19) controversies by Mr John Brunsden in the bill named or what
was done in pursuance thereof (if any such there was) and these
defendants severally say they respectively believe that the said
Robert Burchell died

20) intestate on or about the twenty sixth day of July one
thousand seven hundred and fourteen but do not respectively know
that Simon Vivash in the bill named took administration to him
or that any person by the order of the said

21) Simon Vivash took possession of any part of the personal
estate of the said Robert Burchell But these defendants Andrew
Cripps and Clement Burchell severally say that the said Robert
Burchell having (as these defendants

22) respectively believe) contracted several debts and being (as
these defendant also respectively believe) unable to make full
satisfaction to the creditors he the said Robert Burchell some
time before his death by a bill of sale

23) duly executed under his hand and seal as these defendants
respectively believe and bearing date the nineteenth day ofJuly
Anno Dom one thousand seven hundre and fourteen setting forth
that the said Robert Burchell was

24) indebted to the several persons in the several sums there in
mentioned the whole of which he was unable to pay and that the
defendants Andrew Cripps and Clement Burchell had undertaken to
pay to the said creditors after the rate

25) of twelve shillings and sixpence for each pound or twenty
shillings so due from the said Robert Burchell and that the
creditors had agreed to accept the same did for the
considerations therein mentioned bargain sell and demise unto
those

26) defendants Andrew Cripps and Clement Burchell the house barn
garden and orchard and all arable land of him the said Robert
Burchell in Compton Basssett in the county of Wilts then or late
in his possession whereon then or late was any wheat barley

27) oats and pease standing or growing To hold to the defendants
Andrew Cripps and Clement Burchell their executors
administrators and assignees from the day next before the day of
the date thereof to the feast day of St Michael the Archangel

28) then next following and the said Robert Burchell did also by
the said bill of sale bargain and sell to these defendants
Andrew Cripps and Clement Burchell all the wheat barley oats and
pease then or late standing or being in or upon the

29) said premises being by computation in the whole three and
twenty acres and an half one hundred and sixteen sheep two wagons
two dung pots cart harness and plough harness for five horses
one drag four harrows two ploughs

30) four cows three mares and one gelding and all the chattels
and household goods of the said Robert Burchell (except the
wearing apparel of him his wife and children) To hold to the
said Andrew Cripps and Clement Burchell their executors
administrators and

31) assignees as their own goods and chattels for ever As by the
said bill of sale ready to be produced may appear and these
defendants Andrew Cripps and Clement Burchell say that in
pursuance and by virtue of the said bill of sale they took

32) into their possession the said lands with the crop of corn
and some hay sheep horses and other stock of the said Robert
Burchell's the particulars whereof are mentioned in the first
schedule hereunder written which they pray may be taken as part
of this

33) their answer and these defendants say they valued and
appraised the several things in the said schedule mentioned
together with the crop on the ground [many blank spaces]

34) [blank spaces] at several sums amounting in the whole to the
sum of one hundred and fifty seven pounds (^and four shillings)
The particulars of which appraisement are also mentioned in the
first schedule and this defendant Clement Burchell saith that

35) he afterwards let the lands and sold the said stockcrop and
other things which had been so appraised at several rates and
prizes amounting in the whole to the sum of ninety three pounds
twelve shillings and sixpence and no more and

36) this defendant saith he has paid several sums of money in
discharge of the said Robert Burchell's debts and funeral
expenses and for taxes and on some other amounts the particulars
whereof are mentioned in the second schedule which this

37) defendant also prays may be taken as part of this his answer
but this defendant saith he cannot set forth the exact days of
payment of the said several sums in the said second schedule
mentioned but believes the same to be all within a year after

38) the death of the said Robert Burchell Besides which this
defendant Andrew Cripps saith he hath (^paid) out of the money
arising upon sale of the said stock ?? the sum of thirty pounds
to one William Iles in discharge of a bond entered into by the
said Robert Burchell

39) as the same appears to be for payment of twenty pounds and
interest and for interest and law charges and all the said
defendants severally say they do not respectively know or
believe that the said Robert Burchell left any real estateor
that he died possessed of or any

40) ways entitled unto any goods chattels or personal estate
(except the wearing apparel of him his wife and children) and
these defendants Andrew Cripps and Anne Burchell severally deny
(each speaking for him and her self) that they are or either of
them to the knowledge

41) of each other have possessed any deeds or writings belonging
to the said testator William Caswell or his estate or any bond
entered into by the said William Caswell the son to pay his
father's debts and legacies or for any other purpose whatsoever
or any bond entered into by

42) the said Priscilla Caswell for her acceptance of seven
pounds a year out of the said testator's copyhold estate or for
any other purpose whatsoever And all the said defendants (each
speaking for him and her self) severally deny that they these
defendants and the said Priscilla Caswell William

43) Caswell the son and Simon Vivash have come to any agreement
between themselves or have taken advantage of any disability the
complainant may be under if any such there is or have
endeavoured to defraud the complainants or any of them of
anything that justly belongs to them out of the said testator's
estate or to keep

44) them in ignorance or that they these defendants or any of
them to their respective knowledge do conceal any part of the
said testator's estate or that they ever refused to discover the
personal estate of the said Robert Burchell or how the same has
been applied or disposed of or what debts he owed at his death
or how the same

45) were secured or what part thereof had been paid or ever bid
the complainants defiance or ever declared they would not make
any kind of discovery without being compelled so to do And these
defendants Andrew Cripps and Clement Burchell each speaking for
himself severally say that no part of the said stock

46) and other things mentioned in the said first schedule was
part of the said testator William Caswell's real or personal
estate and severally deny that they or either of them to the
knowledge of each other have or hath possessed any part of the
said testator's personal estate And this defendant Anne Burchell

47) doth deny that she had possessed any part of the said
testator William Caswell's real or personal estate or any deeds
bonds or writings relating thereunto And all the said defendants
severally say that they do not respectively know or believe that
the said Robert Burchell left any real

48) estate whatsoever (except the copyhold estate hereinafter
mentioned) and severally say that they respectively claim no
right or title to the real or personal estate of the said
testator William Caswell nor any right of title to the said
Robert Burchell's personal estate other than by

49) virtue of and under the said bill of sale and except such
satisfaction as they may respectively claim of their respective
debts hereinafter mentioned And this defendant Anne Burchell
saith that she claims no right or title to the personal estate
of the said Robert

50) Burchell neither doth she know that he died possessed of or
entitled any (except the wearing apparel aforesaid) And this
defendant Anne Burchell saith that the said Robert Burchell died
in possession of a copyhold estate within the manor of Compton
Bassett in the county of Wilts

51) of about thirty pounds per ann. which she claims during her
widowhood according to the custom of the said manor And this
defendant Clement Burchell saith that the said Robert Burchell
at the time of his death was justly indebted to this defendant
in the sum of fourteen pounds for corn and for

52) money lent to and paid for the said Robert Burchell in his
lifetime but this defendant had no bond or other security for
the same And this defendant Andrew Cripps saith that the said
Robert Burchell at his death was also justly indebted to this
defendant Andrew Cripps saith that the said Robert Burchell at
his death was also justly indebted to this defendant in the sum
of thirty seven pounds for rent

53) and for money lent to and paid for the said Robert Burchell
in his lifetime for which this defendant had likewise no
security And this defendant saith that soon after the said
Robert Burchell's death he this defendant by virtue of thesaid
bill of sale possessed some stock to the value of ten pounds and
no

54) more as this defendant believes which stock this defendant
has taken towards satisfaction of his said debt as he hopes and
insists he lawfully may And both these defendants severally say
they respectively believe that the said Robert Burchell at his
death was also indebted to several other persons in

55) several sums of money by bond and simple contract the
particulars of which debts so far as the same have come to the
respective knowledge of these defendants are set forth in the
third schedule hereunder written which they also pray may be
taken as part of this their answer And all the said

56) defendants each speaking for him and her self severally
deny that they have altered destroyed or concealed any deeds or
writings relating to the real or personal estate of the said
testator William Caswell or that they have concealed any part of
the personal estate of the said Robert Burchell and also
severally deny all

57) combination and confederacy whereby to defraud the
complainants in any manner whatsoever without that that there is
any other matter cause or thing in the complainants' said bill
of complaint contained material or necessary in the law for
these defendants or either of them to make answer unto and

58) not herein or hereby well and sufficiently answered unto
confessed or avoided traversed ordained is true to the knowledge
of these defendants All which matters and things these
defendants are ready to aver maintain and prove as this
honourable court shall award and humbly pray to be hence

59) dismissed with their reasonably costs and discharges in this
behalf most wrongfully sustained

Notes: 3, 25) Chamber's Dictionary has devises: property
bequeathed by will. devise: to bequeath demise: to send down to
a successor, to bequeath by will. The word "hold" seems to have
been used as a synonym for "belong" in several places, but my
dictionary doesn't have that definition.

17) "reced" is actually the first word; I assume that this is a
standard abbreviation at that time for "received"

20) The Compton Bassett registers record the burial of Robert
Burchell on 27 July 1714. There is no burial recorded in1722
in Compton Bassett for any Robert Burchell, which was when
letters of administration were granted to Simon Vivash
(witnessed by Richard Pope and William Vivash). Perhaps the
existence of both complainants as witnesses means that Simon
Vivash was forced to make an inventory, albeit 8 years late, for
the sake of this very chancery case.

The first schedule mentioned in this answer

Three & twenty acres of wheat barley

& oats and pease at 2:10s per acre 60-00-00

Four horses and their harness 25-15-00

Two wagons and two dung pots 17-00-00

One drag four harnesses two plough 3-09-00

One hundred and sixteen sheep 30-00-00

Four ewes 14-00-00

Hay 7-00-00

157-04-00

The second schedule mentioned in the answer

Paid for wine at Robert Burchell's funeral to Richard N?utt
7-00

Paid for a coffin for Robert Burchell to James Cue16-00

Paid Walter Forman for a funeral suit for Robert Burchell
8-06

Paid Joseph Breach for [blank] 12-06

Paid Mr Hedges for rent 10-03-04

Paid the land tax for the estate 18-08

Paid Thomas Vivash in full of his bond 10-00-00

Paid Phillip Barrett for sheep keeping 15-09

Paid Matthew Fewkes? in full of his bond 26-00-00

Paid Mr Thomas Sharpe in full of his bond 30-00-00

Paid Henry Brewer for a horse 1-18-00

Paid Thomas Cue for malt 3-01-00

Paid Robert Bond in full for rent 5-11-04

Paid the land tax 10-08

Paid Walter Forman for a book debt 6-00-00

Paid William Iles the remainder of a Bond debt 9-06

Paid two? double rates to the church 5-04

Paid John Holly? for sawing 10-00

Paid John Moore for Carpenter work 1-00-00

Paid Stephen Clark for wheeler's work 13-00

Paid William Prater for labour 11-00

Paid John Horton for wages?stages? 1-01-00

Paid to the person who bought the sheep ...??1-06-00

108-09-07

The third schedule mentioned in the answer

Due upon bond to William Iles for principal

interest and charges 30-19-00

Due upon bond to Mr Thomas Sharpe

for principal and interest 52-11-00

Due for seed wheat to Mrs N?alder 1-19-00

Due to Andrew Cripps for rent and for money lent to ??

for Robert Burchell 37-00-00

Due to William Neate for seed wheat 2-00-00

Due to [blank] Benger for barley 1-10-00

Due to Mr Hedges? for rent 7-00-00

Due upon bond to Priscilla Caswell 17-12-00

Due upon bond to Mary Hall 56-10-00

Due upon bond to Thomas Vivash 20-16-00

Due to Noah Stiles 3-10-00

Due to Walter Forman for wares 7-06-00

Due upon bond to Matthew Fewkes 33-13-00

Due to Samuel Seager for goods 6-02-00

Due to John Willis for work 4-12-00

Due to Stephen Clark for work 2-00-00

Due to John Moore for work 3-00-00

Due to John Keate for work 4-10-00

Due to Henry Brewer upon account for a horse 1-18-00

Due to William Dangerfield upon bond 1-10-00

Due to [blank] Seager widow for medicines 5-00-00

Due to Mr Walter Harvey for Law Charges 1-00-00

Due to Robert Tompkins upon Bond 1-10-00

Due to Clement Burchell for coins and for money lent

to and paid for Robert Burchell 14-00-00

316-19-06